>Years before, Joseph Chamberlain had proclaimed that, if Britain were to step away from its "manifest destiny", it would by default leave it to other nations to take up the work that it would have been seen as "too weak, too poor, and too cowardly" to have done itself.[18]
my man, your boy, the greatest British politician ever, Joseph Chamberlain, coming in clutch to save the "Lunatic Express" Kenyan railway from the fools who believed it wasn't worth building simply because a few dozen fellows got eaten by lions during its construction. FROM NAIROBI TO MOMBASA, A NEW CENTURY OF PROSPERITY!